HYDERABAD: Govt warned against anti-Sindh policies
HYDERABAD, July 24: The divisional president of the People’s Party Parliamentarians and the deputy leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman, has said that elements, who had committed excesses against the people of Sindh, will be taken to account for their misdeeds.
In a statement issued here on Monday, he said that every action of the Sindh government was against the interest of the province. He said that the proposal of the city government in Hyderabad was a deep-rooted conspiracy which could not be tolerated.
He called upon people to participate in a large number in an all-parties rally being held in Hyderabad on July 29, against the proposed city government status for Hyderabad district.
He said that when the PPP would come into power, all anti-Sindh schemes would be abolished.
He said that assemblies could be dissolved any time and urged the PPP rank and file to prepare themselves for new elections.
He said that party chairperson Benazir Bhutto would soon return to Pakistan and warned the rulers not to push the PPP against the wall.
COTTON PRICES: Growers and ginners on Monday reached an agreement to fix cotton charges at Rs325 per 40kg of lint for the current cotton season.
According to a press release issued by the directorate of the agricultural information Sindh, the matter was discussed at a meeting of growers and ginners.
The director-general of the Sindh Agriculture Extension, Mr Naeem Korejo, presided over the meeting.
The DG (research), the president of the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture, deputy secretary (technical), representatives of the Cotton Ginners Association, Trading Corporation of Pakistan, Cotton Standard Institute and Pakistan Central Cotton Committee attended the meeting. Matters relating to quality of cotton, insurance of seed cotton and other issues were also discussed.
GSTA: The Government Secondary Teachers Association at a meeting held here on Monday criticised the Sindh government for imposing ban on teachers’ associations and resolved to resist the ban. Zamir Khan presided over the meeting.
The meeting said that the motive behind the ban was to hide government’s own malpractices as favourites of the government had been appointed in the education department in utter disregard of merit and the quota system.
It said that the other motive was to nationalise education institutions without any resistance from teachers.
It accused bureaucracy of destroying the entire education system and demanded that the notification about banning teachers’ and employees’ associations should be withdrawn.